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...Iranian regime is obsessed with its nuclear ambitions. To them, a nuclear-armed Iran, not an affluent Iran, defines the country's influence both within and beyond the region. The same obsession has blinded them to the dangers. Iran will not implode as a result of sanctions. Iran will dare the world; it's a gamble they can live with. But will the world dare Iran? Elvis Ahanonu, JOS, NIGERIA...
Iran's political upheaval has claimed its first American, with the arrest on July 9 of Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American living in Tehran, according to an Iranian human-rights group and family friends...
...spent four months in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison before his release. Tajbakhsh, an urban-planning expert, taught urban policy at the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1994 until 2001. Before his arrest in 2007, he had served as an adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Health and been a consultant for George Soros' Open Society Institute...
...Iranian human-rights group said Tajbakhsh joins more than 240 other prominent Iranian lawyers, activists, journalists, professors, human-rights defenders and students detained without warrants and taken to undisclosed locations since the unrest began almost a month ago. "These detainees are being held in incommunicado detention and the authorities have refused to provide any information regarding charges against them or their condition to their families," Ghaemi said in a statement...
...pictures of Iranian election protests...